If you are involved in the development of Fedora Core as a packager,
here is information that will be relevant to you.
FC5test1 devel freeze now November 14th
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Rawhide is undergoing a large amount of churn as we are preparing for
the switch from monolithic to modular X. Modular X is one of the larger
and more important changes of FC5, meaning we need extensive test
exposure. For this reason the test1 devel freeze has been postponed
until November 14th.

Warren,
While I know that the move to modular X is important, there's some other
nagging issues in rawhide that are going to drive the list mad if they
aren't addressed before test1 is released.
The most obvious of these (IMHO) is devices not appearing on desktop or
appearing to be mounted from Computer (et al) when they are indeed
mounted.

This problem is fixed in Hal cvs. We are working on a timetable for a
0.5.5 release, that will include these changes.

Will this also fix the problems with USB cameras (all 457 different
types of USB camera, afaict) ?